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It still went in though, and does the job. Seems like it might be because the verticle jacks are almost flush with the slot openings in the case. Included cable makes it worth the higher price. I've had this for about a year now. I don't recall having any problems with it except that plugging in the firewire cable was a little tight. Probably a slight alignment of the card in the slot would fix it.
Not a bad deal when you factor in the cable and free 2nd day shipping with Amazon Prime. The computer I bought this for has a mATX motherboard with only four expansion card slots, 6 USB 2.0 ports and no firewire, so by using the internal USB port for the 8 gb memory stick I use for Vista pre-fetch, this card effectively doubled my external USB connectivity, added Firewire and kept the other slots free for an e-sata raid, blackmagic intensity card and graphics card. However, it powered up without a problem and on testing all of the ports seemed to function properly, as did the supplied 6-4 pin Firewire cable. However, I went by the picture and got what I thought I'd be getting. The product actually has a total of 8 ports: 4 external/1 internal USB 2.0 and 2 external/1 internal 6-pin firewire. On a negative side, the card did have a noticeable ding on one side when it arrived, with a matching dent in the anti-static wrap indicating that it happened sometime after assembly.
Purchased as a christmas gift but was defective. I returned it to the manufacturer with relative ease and prompty received a refund.
For my needs maybe 2 USB and 1 FW port might have been enough, if they were in the proper bracket oreintation, and I use a powered USB hub. All the ports seem to work OK, but when the 2006 Dell E310 Dimension case is reassembled, the way the usb ports are aligned perpendicular instead of parallel to the bracket prevents their use. I didn't return it however.
Saw that two of the legs on IC were touching. I have not so good eyes anymore and could see the bent legs and white stuff without a magnifier. Took it out, computer went back to normal. Stay away from Sabrent.
Had out white stuff on legs. It is cheap but it is junk made in China. Tried in two computers. Both items had QC Passed stickers. Second one made computer studdddder and USB writes were slow to an SD card. First one in computer would not start.
Has whitish stuff on IC legs. Loading down the bus some way. I bought these two a month apart. What a joke. Bought two. Looks to be poorly soldered.
Also had bought 2 other Sabrent products, one of those two was broke out of box, that 3 out of 4 = 75% bad out of box.
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